Example sentences of "than [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look among the ants for one that is larger than the others-this will be the queen . |
| 2 | Questioning of the effectiveness of the accepted methods , and the justification for them , was not confined to penal reformers , being shared by no less a figure than the all powerful Permanent Secretary at the Home Office , Sir Charles Cunningham . |
| 3 | If the UN fails the Gulf test , it will be doing no worse than the many outsiders who have tried their hands in the Middle East over the past six decades . |
| 4 | Training may sometimes unintentionally be squeezed out as being superficially less urgent than the many emergency day-to-day situations that arise in a bureau . |
| 5 | There are many new motorways not shown ; the detailed form of the roads is not reproduced faithfully ; and what is shown on the map to be an isolated settlement turns out to be hardly any bigger than the many other settlements you can see . |
| 6 | Montini was more far-sighted than anyone else present , certainly more than the many ‘ progressives ’ who could see no further ahead than the next vote ( perhaps that was the influence of the press ) . |
| 7 | He hopes to show that , although we can not know quite what the former say we can , nevertheless we can still know more than the latter allow . |
| 8 | Following one stimulus rather than another with food , for example , is likely to establish associations that will cause the subject to approach the former stimulus rather than the latter when both are available . |
| 9 | We know much more about the former than the latter . |
| 10 | Gorse and bracken spread ( the former significantly richer for wildlife than the latter ) may be due to a reduction in the intensity of land management in some parishes . |
| 11 | The preferences of those who believed that one candidate was going to win would be compared with those who believed that the rival was going to win ; the hypothesis would be that the former would be more sympathetic to the candidate than the latter . |
| 12 | He did not after all suggest passing conduct of the investigation over to Duroc 's police , which suggested less confidence in them , or more in Thiercelin , than the latter had anticipated . |
| 13 | Like those of neighbouring Bouzy , they possess qualities somewhere between the solid , full-bodied and strongly perfumed Verzenay and the smooth , exceptionally aromatic Aÿ but their great strength and vinosity edges them closer to the former than the latter . |
| 14 | This was partly through his articles , in which he placed as much emphasis on the soft parts as on the hard parts of the anatomy , although the former , for obvious reasons , must be the subject of much more speculation than the latter . |
| 15 | I 'm afraid Ivy did n't say anything interesting about Murdoch and Spark , except to say that the former is to be taken more seriously — than the latter , not than she is . |
| 16 | The exact figures depended on whether the robot was used for material handling or for operating a tool , the former application displacing more workers than the latter . |
| 17 | Now we have already made the point that the weakness of a premonitory or sympathetic reaction compared with experience which is present and mine is no objection to acting on the former rather than the latter . |
| 18 | That the former are more likely to be relatively more powerful , wealthy , and privileged than the latter could be one of nature 's accidents . |
| 19 | Neither would a sovereign state 's government necessarily want to oppose transnational corporations , for the former often find themselves in the unenviable position of needing the latter more than the latter need them . |
| 20 | That children also lingered in foster homes without any definite plan for their future care was taken seriously , but the indictment was levied more against the former than the latter . |
| 21 | No more than the latter does it seek to lay claim to ‘ the real , or Truth as such . |
| 22 | I believe it is the former rather than the latter . |
| 23 | It seems likely that the first of these surveys probed reasons for job loss more deeply than the latter , and that the second 's estimates are too low . |
| 24 | He posits a difference in the attitude to risk on the part of management on the one hand and shareholders on the other , the former being much more risk averse than the latter , given the effect of insolvency on managers ' jobs and on the value of their shareholdings in the company ( which often constitute a considerable proportion of their total wealth ) , together with the possibility of personal liability in the event of winding up . |
| 25 | There is no guarantee at all that the former , simply by taking place in a teacher 's place of work , will somehow be more relevant or valuable than the latter ( a point made over a decade ago Alexander 1980 — in the context of a previous incarnation of current debates ) . |
| 26 | Another important difference between this form of mass-production and unit mass-production is that the former invariably requires a lower labour force than the latter . |
| 27 | On a scale of judicial independence the British courts would be somewhere between those of the United States and the former Soviet Union , but rather closer to the former than the latter . |
| 28 | Where there is a conflict between the register and the certificate , the former is stronger prima facie evidence than the latter but neither is decisive ; ownership of the shares depends on who is entitled to be registered . |
| 29 | It soon became clear however that the former was easier than the latter . |
| 30 | In the Australian experience referred to earlier , those engaged in the study of alternative community-based educational initiatives stressed the former rather than the latter , ‘ The innovating organisation will only survive if it can show them ( the statutory bodies and local power groups ) that its power is complementary rather than invasive . ’ |